Top Albums 2010

So what are your favourite records of 2010? Yes I know it's not the end of the year yet, but whatever. Publications are beginning to put up their lists, and I've just done my top 25 elsewhere, so I'm in the mood to create the thread.

If you can, provide a link to your favourite song off the album, and specify the genre too. Also, feel free to write a little blurb to make things a bit more interesting. I doubt anyone wants to read a thread full of lists.

I don't know what the feeling towards the Kanye album is on here, but I'm going to guess it isn't that positive. Let me start off by saying this: it isn't perfect. Jay-Z sucks on Monster ("LOOOOOOVE... I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT"), the auto-tune 'guitar' solo on Runaway is a good idea that becomes self-indulgent, the Chris Rock skit on the end of Blame Game is useless.

But there's absolutely no faulting the ambition of the album. Almost every song here is wonderful, and there's only a couple of occasions where Kanye over-reaches himself. I can't see how it won't change mainstream hip-hop for the better in the coming years. An ambitious, massively creative album like this is exactly the shot in the arm it needs.

Anyway, there's my list. Hope you enjoy the songs I've linked to, and I look forward to seeing more lists.

Apart from hearing a few of his singles ocassionally, I'd only heard Kanye's second album before listening to this new one. I've listened to Late Registration at least 20 times and I love it, I really dislike MBDTF though (and I don't feel the dislike is influenced by the fact he had his lower row of teeth replaced with diamonds).

However I'm sure you'll disregard this post when I tell you a couple of my favourite albums released this year are:

If this thread continues like this, I'll just ask a mod to lock it when I'm next on. I should have known it was a waste of time to expect anything more than sneering replies from the miserable cunts on here.

I made this so people can exchange recommendations and discover new music, but if people want to drag it down to yet another discussion about a website and not actually contribute anything, then fine.

See, I considered HOOM to be a disappointment. No doubting that there's some cracking songs on here, and I think an album just of the highlights would be a contender for my AotY, but it's a triple album and that naturally leads to there being an awful lot of filler.

Tom_Servo wrote:
If this thread continues like this, I'll just ask a mod to lock it when I'm next on. I should have known it was a waste of time to expect anything more than sneering replies from the miserable cunts on here.

I made this so people can exchange recommendations and discover new music, but if people want to drag it down to yet another discussion about a website and not actually contribute anything, then fine.

Dude, just because someone thinks your list is skewed you don't have to threaten to throw all your toys out of your pram.

See, I considered HOOM to be a disappointment. No doubting that there's some cracking songs on here, and I think an album just of the highlights would be a contender for my AotY, but it's a triple album and that naturally leads to there being an awful lot of filler.

The album is only 13 songs long, you talk as if it's a 30 song beast or something.

The only reason it's a triple album is because the majority of those songs are 7-9mins long so they wouldn't have all fitted on a single disk. Yes, at 180 minutes in length it is long but I never felt a single minute of those 180 was unnecessary.

I can understand it maybe feeling abit unwieldily for some but personally I love how every time I listen to it, it's like I'm listening to it for the first time. I can imagine myself listening to it in 20 years time and it'll still feel the same and I'll still being discovering things within it which I'd never noticed before.

Big Boi - Lucious Left-Foot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWsvkW6rKkQ (hiphop album of the year, in a universe where Kanye is still just that guy who did that annoying song with that guy who played Ray Charles)

no order except twin shadow is def my favourite record of the year, & got a bit bored scouring for youtubes halfway through. the ciara record would have been top 3 if the leaks had coalesced into an actual release. thought the kanye record was OK but a bit tiring listened all the way through (which I actually did a surprising amount of times.) had to have the fuss explained to me and I hadn't been following all the twitter/SNL/good friday album as event minutiae all that closely so not sure I actually /got/ got it.